BRITISH BUTTERFLIES AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS

"The study of natural history is the learning of the characters with which the
wonderful story of nature is written ; and cannot conceive a more pleasing and natural introduction to its general study than entomology,
of which I think the division of Lepidoptera...the most easy and attractive section.
"H.N. Humphreys, Esq, 1860
An exquisite collection of original hand coloured lithographs by H.Noel Humphries (1810-1879),
naturalist, entemologist, illustrator,numisimatist (study of currrency)
published Edinburgh 1860.Humphries layout that comprehensively illustrates the life cycle of the various butterflies, so impressed the
British Museum curators that they adopted his meticulous dislay concept.